Anthony Brandt

I’m a Professor of Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. My catalogue includes four chamber operas, as well as orchestral, chamber, vocal, theater, dance, and television scores. Recent honors include MacDowell (2023) and Copland House (2024) fellowships. I recently composed the music for the ballets “LiveWire” and “Meeting of Minds” and chamber work “Diabelli 200,” collaborations in which several of the performers wear mobile brain-body imaging, with live visualizations of the data. “Meeting of Minds” was performed at the United Nation’s “AI for Good Summit” in Geneva and awarded Chamber Music America’s 2025 Interdisciplinary Collaboration of the Year Award. I’m also co-founder and Artistic Director of the Houston-based contemporary music ensemble Musiqa, two-time winners of Adventurous Programming Awards from Chamber Music America and ASCAP (2013 and '16). Musiqa has presented the music of nearly 300 living composers, including close to 100 world premieres.